Interfacing a Raspberry Pi Pico to an SSD1351 OLED Display
I was recently at FOSDEM in Brussels and noticed quite a few people walking around wearing digital badges. So, I thought when I get home I should see if I could cobble together my own one. Introduction...
View ArticleHow to use the SSD1351 OLED display
In my previous post, I mentioned that I managed to get the SSD1351 working with a Raspberry Pi Pico. I figured I would write a few blog posts going into detail about how this is done. In this first...
View ArticleBasic graphics on the SSD1351 display
Yesterday I wrote a post on how to wire up and initialise the SSD1351 display with a Raspberry Pi Pico. Today I’m going to delve a little into some routines to display things on the screen. A lot of...
View ArticleFont rendering on the SSD1351 display
Now that we have image rendering down, it is time to look at font rendering on the SSD1351. As before the techniques used here will work with other graphics displays and libraries with minimal effort....
View ArticleShape drawing on the SSD1351 display
Based on the previous few posts, we now have lots of things we can do with the SSD1351 display. One additional thing we can play with this time is drawing shapes. There are a few tricks to doing this...
View ArticleYep! I bricked a Pentium 3 motherboard (and how I fixed it)
In my retro collection is a Pentium 3 based computer which I will be blogging about once I finish building it completely. But in the mean time I figured I would update the BIOS in it to fix an issue,...
View ArticleTigard and the Xilinx XC9500XL CPLD
This is a blog post mostly for my reference, as I forget how to do this every time I need to. Tigard is a great little device which exposes an FTDI and gives lots of ports and power options to connect...
View ArticleFake chips, I got stung
Unfortunately, in the tech sector, just like many other sectors, there are scammers around. When you are dealing with electronics this is typically in the form of chips that have had their markings...
View ArticleRetro computer diagnostic tools
In the past, I’ve discussed the soldering gear and general tools I’ve used, but I haven’t really summarized the diagnostic tools I recommend. I have been asked about some recently, so I figured it is...
View ArticleValiant Turtle: Retro Restoration Part 3
I thought part 2 was the end of my restoration journey for Tobias the Valiant Turtle. But there is more that has happened since. So, let’s get to it. Controller Cover The controller was great, but I...
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